From aaf at ardith.org Mon Mar 1 20:33:58 2010
From: aaf at ardith.org (Ardith Falkner)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:33:58 -0700
Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] UCAR hiring Web Application Developers
Message-ID:
Hello all,
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) has two full time
positions open for web application developers.
We are a small group of developers, using Ruby on Rails for all new
development. We also maintain the existing GLOBE.gov site.
GLOBE.gov is a website used around the world by students, teachers, and
scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment
and the Earth system. GLOBE works closely in partnership with NASA, NOAA,
and NSF.
We are looking for the following positions:
Interactive Web Application Developer (Web Dev III) (10093)
Web Application Maintenance/Transition (Web Dev II) (10091)
Currently, our group is working to launch our new website which includes:
discussion forums
student/teacher roles and responsibilities
google earth/google maps including 27,000 schools worldwide
content management system
We are looking for candidates that value:
contributing, while learning new skills
quality, maintainable software
innovation
teamwork
Check out the official job postings and upload resumes at:
http://bit.ly/cjfV66
Thanks,
--Ardith
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From mbarinek at pivotallabs.com Tue Mar 2 13:23:31 2010
From: mbarinek at pivotallabs.com (Michael Barinek)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:23:31 -0700
Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Pivotal Labs in Boulder is Hiring
Message-ID: <761031a41003021023n4fbb2bffg7289d0bf0d8024b9@mail.gmail.com>
Pivotal Labs, a premier software development consultancy, is looking for
Senior Developers.
If you're looking for somewhere to do serious agile development, and serious
Rails development, this is the place. We're looking for brilliant developers
to join our small team in Downtown Boulder on Pearl Street. If you want to
share your knowledge while learning from others, work sustainably, and work
on some serious projects, we think you'll have a blast working with us.
Job Summary:
* Developing Pivotal Tracker
* Test Driven Development
* Pair Programming
* Aggressive Refactoring
Additional Skills desired:
* Experience with testing frameworks from rspec and Test::Unit to Selenium
and JsUnit
* SQL
* JavaScript
* CSS
* Ruby on Rails
Why join us?
We're agile. That means test-driven development with tools like RSpec,
Test::Unit, JUnit, JsUnit and Selenium. It means pair-programming,
refactoring, and state-of-the-art continuous integration, build, and
deployment infrastructure.
We're good, and always improving. We have daily stand-up meetings and
regular retrospectives. We figure out what we're doing wrong, so we can fix
it, and what we're doing right, so we can make it even better. Working here
means you get better at what you already do well, every day.
We've got multiple teams of Rails and Java developers working on a variety
of products at our labs in downtown San Francisco and New York City and at
some well known companies around the Bay Area and beyond. If you're a
talented developer who's enthusiastic about agile and interested in a unique
and challenging environment, get in touch with us.
Interested? Email jobs at pivotallabs.com
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From mbarinek at pivotallabs.com Tue Mar 2 18:12:45 2010
From: mbarinek at pivotallabs.com (Michael Barinek)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:12:45 -0700
Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Free Pass to Mountain West Ruby Conference
Message-ID: <761031a41003021512n689f650eva78e1f34b17172c@mail.gmail.com>
We have an extra pass for the Mountain West Ruby Conference
http://mtnwestrubyconf.org/2010/ - dm and follow @pivotalboulder on twitter
if you're interested. We'll announce the lucky recipient on 3/5 at noon
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From mghaught at gmail.com Wed Mar 10 22:50:12 2010
From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:50:12 -0700
Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - March Meeting - Mar 16th
Message-ID: <57f29e621003101950kc38a1c5o7d88682da576403d@mail.gmail.com>
Next week is the March meeting for Boulder Ruby. We'll be meeting on
Tuesday, the 16th at 7pm. Speaking this month is a special guest that
will be coming into town from the Mountain West Ruby Conference.
Randall Thomas of Engine Yard will be in Boulder for a few days and
will give his talk on machine learning. It should be a good time.
More details on our meeting and Randall's talk can be found on our
website.
http://boulderruby.org/meetings/2010/01/28/march-2010/
Additionally, I may make a special announcement at the meeting, which
I'm sure you won't want to miss. :)
Cheers,
Marty Haught
http://boulderruby.org
From james at graysoftinc.com Tue Mar 16 23:57:28 2010
From: james at graysoftinc.com (James Edward Gray II)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:57:28 -0500
Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] [ANN] Red Dirt RubyConf Registration
Message-ID: <354D9900-367C-4FE9-9014-A7B8191D0859@graysoftinc.com>
I just wanted to spread the good word that registration is now open for the Red Dirt RubyConf. Our "early bird" special ends in ten days, so sign-up now for the best prices:
http://reddirtrubyconf.com/register_to_attend
I'm really proud of the program we have put together, so check this out if you haven't seen it yet:
Keynotes
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Living here in hell?Ruby and the search for perfection
Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers
(Parenthetically Speaking)
Jim Weirich, EdgeCase
Ruby
----
Ruby and the Unix Philosophy
Matt Yoho, Hashrocket
Sinatra: Microapps Running on Rack
Tim Gourley, Engine Yard
Javascript and Friends: Scripting Ruby with JavaScript for Fun and Profit
Charles Lowell, The Frontside Software, Inc
Design and Modularity in Ruby
Glenn Vanderburg, Relevance, Inc.
Rails 3
-------
Rails in the Large: How We're Building One of the Largest Rails Apps for an Enterprise
Neal Ford, ThoughtWorks
Bundler: Painless Dependency Management
Andr? Arko, Engine Yard
Active Record Makeover: Rekindle the relationship
Marty Haught, Haught Codeworks
With a Mighty Hammer
Ben Scofield, Viget Labs
NoSQL
-----
Scaling with Cassandra
Ryan King, Twitter
Data Driven Applications with Ruby and MongoDB
Kyle Banker and John Taber, 10gen and Tiger Nassau, Inc
CouchDB, Ruby, and You
Will Leinweber, merge.fm
Plain Old Tokyo Storage
Jeremy Hinegardner, Collective Intellect
Servers/Hosting
---------------
Rails and Sinatra on Google AppEngine
John Woodell, Google
Rumble in the Jungle...
Fernand Galiana, liquidrail llc
Redis To The Resque
Jade Meskill, Integrum Technologies
The Rise of DevOps
Corey Donohoe, Teamsters
Trainings
---------
The Ruby Your Mother Warned You About
James Edward Gray II and Glenn Vanderburg, Gray Productions Software Inc. and Relevance, Inc.
The Rails 3 Ropes Course
Gregg Pollack, Envy Labs
Introduction to Riak
Sean Cribbs, Basho
Living Among the Clouds
Jim Mulholland and Jason Derrett, Squeejee
Other Highlights
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* A hackfest is planned
* There will be a live recording of the Ruby5 podcast
* We will have good food (seriously!)
I hope you all find that as exciting as I do and I hope to see you there!
James Edward Gray II
From mghaught at gmail.com Wed Mar 17 18:47:04 2010
From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:47:04 -0600
Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Colorado Ruby Conference
Message-ID: <57f29e621003171547m15f8257fqba1dfdba42821e38@mail.gmail.com>
As I announced at last night's Boulder Ruby meeting, I will be
organizing a Colorado-based Ruby conference in October. Though there
are no hard details yet, I am planning to have it be in Boulder around
the 7th-8th of October. We're going to be a bit creative for this
conference so it won't be like all the other hotel conference-spaced
tech conferences. We are looking to keep a Colorado feel to it. The
conference is primarily for the local Ruby community but we will also
make it worthwhile for out of state folks to travel here.
Two prominent ideas are having an official event involve some of the
local breweries and some outdoor exposure as part of the conference.
It's very early so nothing's be set in stone but I wanted to share
this with you now.
If any of you want to assist in the organizing of this conference,
please email me offlist. There's plenty to do with putting together a
conference so I'm happy to have the help. As soon as we have more
details I will let you all know.
Cheers,
Marty
From alexander.t.jackson at gmail.com Fri Mar 26 14:49:35 2010
From: alexander.t.jackson at gmail.com (Alexander Jackson)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:49:35 -0600
Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Pivotal Labs Event
Message-ID: <1a8d90021003261149m784b887clba8db2b8acf584dc@mail.gmail.com>
Thinking about working with us? Come join us for a brewery tour
http://pivotallabs.eventbrite.com
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From mghaught at gmail.com Mon Mar 29 23:19:44 2010
From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:19:44 -0600
Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Colorado Ruby Conference Design
Message-ID: <57f29e621003292019i20acffe4p28a6d0e96c857303@mail.gmail.com>
Things are progressing with the October Colorado Ruby conference. One
piece that I would like some help with is finding a designer to help
with the conference logo and web design. Would you please email me
offlist if you know either a firm or freelancer that would be
interested to take this on? Thanks.
Cheers,
Marty